Major Works: Shakespeare

New and Published Books

1. Shakespeare on Silent Film

   A Strange Eventful History

   By Robert Hamilton Ball

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

   In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John. In his highly entertaining history, Robert Hamilton Ball traces in detail the fate of Shakespeare on silent films from Tree’s first effort until the establishment of sound in 1929. The silent...

   Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
2. Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors

   By Peter S. Donaldson

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

   Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and current film theory about gender and subjectivity, the author combines close readings of seven films with...

   Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
3. Elizabethan and Jacobean Journals

   Being a Record of those Things Most Talked of During the Years 1591-1610

   Edited by G.B. Harrison

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   This set provides a detailed and intimate account of the Elizabethan and Jacobean World picture. The volumes vividly convey life as it was in the days of Shakespeare; King James; the first voyage to the West Indies; the Great Plague of 1603; the Gunpowder Plot; the Civil War, and the first impact...

   Published September 25th 2007 by Routledge
4. Shakespeare

   Critical Heritage Set

   Edited by Brian Vickers

   The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

   Published March 8th 2007 by Routledge
5. A. Reconsidering Shakespeare

   Edited by Terrence Hawkes

   These three volumes are part of the forty-one volume set New Accents. First launched in 1977, the New Accents series rapidly changed the face of literary studies. Its clear and concise volumes brought the latest in literary theory to students and academics and paved the way for undergraduate...

   Published January 30th 2007 by Routledge
6. Shakespeare

   The art of the dramatist

   By Roland Mushat Frye

   This edition first published in 1982. Previous edition published in 1972 by Houghton Mifflin. Outlining methods and techniques for reading Shakespeare's plays, Roland Frye explores and develops a comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare's drama, focussing on the topics which must be kept in mind...

   Published December 22nd 2004 by Routledge
7. Shakespeare's Drama

   By Una Ellis-Fermor

   Edited by Kenneth Muir

   First published in 1980. This collection of essays by the first General Editor of the New Arden Shakespeare brings together the best of Ellis-Fermor's Shespearean criticism, in addition to outstanding essays on Coriolanus and Troilus and Cressida. Collected and edited by Kenneth Muir, the book is...

   Published December 22nd 2004 by Routledge
8. Focus on Macbeth

   Edited by John Russell Brown

   First published in 1982. Macbeth exercises a strange influence over readers and theatre audiences: the words of the text offer no easy clue to meaning or significance and in dramatic structure the play is very different from other Shakespearean tragedies. Many kinds of study are needed in order to...

   Published December 22nd 2004 by Routledge
9. Shakespeare's Sililoquies

   By Ingeborg Boltz, Wolfgang Clemen

   First published in 1987. Often the best known and most memorable passages in Shakespeare's plays, the soliloquies, also tend to be the focal points in the drama. Twenty-seven soliloquies are examined in this work, illustrating how the spectator or reader is led to the soliloquy and how the drama...

   Published December 22nd 2004 by Routledge
10. The Development of Shakespeare's Imagery

    By Wolfgang Clemen

    First published in 1951. The edition reprints the second, updated, edition, of 1977. When first published this book quickly established itself as the standard survey of Shakespeare's imagery considered as an integral part of the development of Shakespeare's dramatic art. By illustrating, through...

    Published December 22nd 2004 by Routledge